New Grant for Creating eBook Texts announced today
In today’s meeting of Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), a grant was announced for creating or converting existing texts to eBooks for free distribution to students in an effort to make learning more affordable for more Georgia students. Awards provide $5000 for...Cool Tools: Word Lens
Folks who have attended our seminar on Teaching with iPads have heard me talk about the major benefits of mobile devices and how they relate to learning. Particularly, the characteristics include: Location awareness Remote engagement Continuous updates Collaborative...Interwebs – fun friday link
Here’s a link to a video just to make you think a bit about technological change Best line is at 4:14. Trust me.Interwebs – NYTimes – Young Minds
If you aren’t a reader of The Stone, the NYTimes weekly opinion column where “contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless” or something or other, you should probably pat yourself on the back – it was great...Cool Tools: How to pull data from a PDF for use in Excel
This post is reposted from sites.gsu.edu/data_viz. Have you ever wanted to pull all of the raw data out of, let’s say, a pdf file of government data or a journal article? It’s the worst! You can’t just copy and paste from it, so first you try to...Summer Workshop Calendar now available!
All that anticipation you’ve been building up can now be relieved in a way that is absolutely not anti-climactic! The summer workshop schedule has now been posted to our beloved training calendar site!! The clamoring can now die down, the gnashing of teeth may...3D Printing at the Exchange!
Want a 3D digital experience without the need for pesky glasses? Why not just interact with your digital creation in Real Life™ – the way that nature intended height, width, and depth to be exeperienced! That’s right people! Though we...
Heartbleed – check your favorite sites to see if you need to change your password
In case you missed it, there is a major security vulnerability in the underlying structure of how the internet handles user account passwords. It may sound like gibberish if I start talking about SSL, so here’s a link to a cartoon that will give you a simplified...
Cool Tools – Missing in Action edition: MindMeister, MindNode, Evernote, Skitch, & Penultimate
Well, as the continuing build up of responsibility takes hold in the later part of the semester, our online Cool Tools classes have been, let’s just say, less highly attended. After wiping away our tears, we decided that this in no way should punish our faithful...First Georgia State University User Group goes live!
That’s right people! Who’s not excited about getting a group together so that you can learn about the best practices used by other GSU community members around a particular software product or content area? I’ll tell you who has two thumbs and IS...
Cool Tools – Haiku Deck
Let’s face it – done poorly, PowerPoint presentations can be snooze-inducing! Sure, there are plenty of ways to build visually appealing presentations (and we offer plenty of training specifically on how to do that), but sometimes we need something...Instructor Makerspace – Visualizing Data with Tableau
Wow! This last Friday’s Makerspace was a great time of exploring data, discussing the potential opportunity in creating a Tableau user group, as well as laughter, coffee, and gogurt! Where the mini maker project helped a few attendees that were not...
Code Camp: Javascript – Session 3
It’s almost time for Code Camp session 4, but we don’t want to lose sight of what was accomplished in our last Code Camp session. Code Campers continued to move through Code Academy’s track for Javascript and we ended the session with most...
Interwebs – What Computers Can’t Do
This article from the NYTimes does a great job of reminding people what it is that computers are unable to do, and consequently, what it is that people will do as our technological infrastructure continues to grow. From a pedagogical perspective, the importance of...Subscribe by Email
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